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I sent some JPEGs attached to e-mails that I wrote in Mail ... sent to an AOL account .... the files were .mim when received and my friend could not open them. Is there something I could do on my end to help him out?
My friend on AOL sent me some pics that he attached to an e-mail ... they arrived in Mail embedded in the e-mail, not as attachments. Any way to keep them as attachments???
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joetaxpayer2001 
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Posted 20 April 2003 - 05:19 PM
Well, I believe that Netscape has the option of turning html off so that an attachment will appear as such and not come up 'in-line' viewable in the email. This is a sender option, but there's probably a preference at the receiving end as well.
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Posted 20 April 2003 - 06:31 PM
Then the problem is often the computer you are sending to. Macintosh computers handle encoding differently than other computers, so if they aren't able to decode, or don't know how, it might be helpful to just adjust to them...
? To send an attachment to a Macintosh computer, use BinHex, which preserves the Macintosh resource information and data. I think this may also be called Apple double...
? To send an attachment to a Windows-based computer, use MIME/Base 64, which preserves the data only.
? To send an attachment to a UNIX computer, use UUEncode, which preserves the data only.
So check your settings and see if this helps at all....
One more idea... We in the Mac world often name our files without using an extension, like .gif or .jpg or .mpg etc.... We tned to just give files names. Sometimes a Windows application will not recognize the file if it doesn't see the extension. I understand this is particularly bad with files in Word, but it may be the problem with graphic files as well.
Good luck
? To send an attachment to a Macintosh computer, use BinHex, which preserves the Macintosh resource information and data. I think this may also be called Apple double...
? To send an attachment to a Windows-based computer, use MIME/Base 64, which preserves the data only.
? To send an attachment to a UNIX computer, use UUEncode, which preserves the data only.
So check your settings and see if this helps at all....
One more idea... We in the Mac world often name our files without using an extension, like .gif or .jpg or .mpg etc.... We tned to just give files names. Sometimes a Windows application will not recognize the file if it doesn't see the extension. I understand this is particularly bad with files in Word, but it may be the problem with graphic files as well.
Good luck
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